Billy Zane to play Marlon Brando in Waltzing with Brando

Billy Zane is set to produce and star in Waltzing with Brando, an indie drama which will see him taking on the role of screen icon Marlon Brando, Variety has revealed.

The film is being written and directed by Bill Fishman (Posse) from the memoir of Bernard Judge, Brando’s architect. It will take place between 1969 and 1974, a period where Brando was preparing to star in both The Godfather and Last Tango in Paris, and will explore how the actor picked the obscure architect Judge to help him build the world’s first ecologically perfect reteart on a tiny Tahitian island.

Zane is coming off the back of a Best Actor award at the Gold Movie Awards for his role in the romantic drama Lucid and will soon appear in Sky’s street-racing drama series Curfew alongside Sean Bean and Miranda Richardson.